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By Susan Morse | 11:47 am | March 29, 2016
Mergers and consolidations should be saving hospitals money from having benefits of scale, but a new report by PwC finds this isn't the case.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:49 am | March 29, 2016
MedStar said in a statement that the virus prevented some employees from logging into system but that all of its clinics remain open and functioning.
By Kaiser Health News | 10:43 am | March 29, 2016
Authors liken drug loans to mortgages, noting that both can enable consumers to buy big-ticket items requiring a hefty up-front payment that they could not otherwise afford.
By Kaiser Health News | 10:29 am | March 29, 2016
The policy took effect last year and applies only to Medicare Advantage members, not to the plans CMS oversees in the health law's marketplaces.
By Beth Jones Sanborn | 09:27 am | March 29, 2016
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research has announced the six academic centers in the United States and Germany that will host the second class of the Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders, part of a long-standing partnership between the two foundations.
By Beth Jones Sanborn | 04:11 pm | March 28, 2016
Henry Ford Health System has licensed hundreds of its hospital food recipes in India's New Dehli National Capital Region, the system announced late last week. The NCR is the country's largest urban center, and the move is part a larger health and wellness effort.
By Susan Morse | 02:52 pm | March 28, 2016
EmblemHealth and Northwell Health in New York have agreed to share risk in value-based contracts, EmblemHealth announced March 25.
By Jeff Lagasse | 12:12 pm | March 28, 2016
National health services organization IASIS Healthcare, the Phoenix Suns basketball team, and Phoenix Mercury have joined forces to open a multi-specialty clinic the organizations tout as the first of its kind in the country.
By Beth Jones Sanborn | 10:14 am | March 28, 2016
The era of value-based reimbursement is making patient satisfaction a costly thing to ignore, and that goes for the operating room right down to the hospital cafeteria.
By Kaiser Health News | 09:45 am | March 28, 2016
When California's aid-in-dying law takes effect this June, terminally ill patients who decide to end their lives could be faced with a hefty bill for the lethal medication. It retails for more than $3,000.